Yeah, it's not in Webster's but the Oxford dictionary definitely has it as the past participle of likewhore which is one that cheaply sells themselves out for likes in forums and on other social media outlets. It's a very common word. The website: https://www.smart-words.org/500-most-commonly-used-english-words.html had it ranked as the 51st most used word in the English language right between she and which. That's just how fucking common it is. I can't believe you hadn't heard, read and said it before.
And we can be sure that this sentiment is accurate because Olshey always did such a masterful job of putting complementary pieces around him and using the rest of the available salary wisely. So it's definitely all on Dame being paid just as much as other perrenial all nba players.
The question is, with our lack of assets do you see the current squad being able to make moves necessary to become contenders in Dames timeline?
I think the team and I agree with them, thinks that Ant is going to be better next to Dame than CJ was. Also that Grant is the best forward they've put with Dame since LaMarcus. I don't think they're done with this roster yet. I do think when this roster is complete for this season that they'll be a 4th-6th seed and not a team that might barely make the playoffs. I also think they're trying to gather talent to make other moves that they see as complementary to Dame, should Dame/Ant have some of the same problems as Dame/CJ. That's how I see things right now but I could be totally wrong and the smart move might be to build around the Simons/Sharpe back court. Unfortunately for people with the vision of the team you have that ship set sail when the Grant trade went down and it will be too late to turn back once they extend him if that's a weird two year extension before the trade is official or a longer one before the trade deadline next year... this shit is going to happen. The best you can do now is hope that it does get us to a point where we can contend.
Both are top tier in my view and I think Steph would agree with me but ...to each their own. Winning will show that....
I will agree that there really aren't many reasonable theoretical Dame trades that make a ton of sense. The teams that have assets that buttress a true rebuild aren't in a position to become contenders by adding Dame, and vice versa.
I think the probability that we end up top 4 and can actually stand a chance against the Warriors is non-existant.
This season Dame will be the 8th highest paid player in the league... I realize he only played a few games last season in which he was extremely hobbled by the injury that ended his season but all of the experts agree is not one that will be chronic. So I'll excuse the fact that your memory fails you but before last season Dame was the 5th leading vote getter in all nba voting, the year before that 8th, the year before that 8th and the year before that 4th. So I'd say that he does play up to his contract since it's the 8th highest contract in the league... I mean if you were just trying to play semantics and say that he wasn't worth it last season you'd be right but otherwise you're just wrong. If you don't like all nba voting you can look up a wonderful stat, points created which adds up the points a player scores and those he assists on. He's been second to Steph a couple of times and the season before last, he was second to Luka.
Also as far as your simple math goes. The last several champions all had players taking up as much or more of their cap space than Dame does and all of those players are set up to be making 50+ in the years that Dame will... if LeBron is still playing. Do you know why? It's because superstars win in this league... not spreading your money around evenly. Going in with big money on the best talent and then having the understanding of who the role players are that will help that superstar talent the most.
The only part of the resume that he doesn't have is the championship. The fact is that is because of Olshey's shitty team building around him. If you don't think that then I don't really give a shit because it means that you either haven't been paying attention or you don't know what you're talking about. If you think staying with the Dame/CJ experiment so long was a good idea, I feel bad for you. If you think that Dame was the bad variable in that experiment, I feel worse for you. The fact is that Dame has been one of the top 5 offensive weapons in the league over the past six seasons before last season and he was surrounded but uncomplementary teammates and a bad coach.
They should be looking towards acquiring talent that makes them contenders. Not running on the same treadmill expecting different results.